UN to send team to Iraq to help organize elections for next year

[LauraK]

16 July ? The United Nations is sending an electoral team to Baghdad early next month to help the newly constituted Iraqi Governing Council organize elections for next year "hopefully as early as possible," the top UN envoy to Iraq said today.

"Now, in other areas, the building of new democratic institutions, but more particularly in the political arena, the UN will be playing a very active role," Sergio Vieira de Mello, Secretary-General Kofi Annan's Special Representative, told Syrian television in Damascus, where he met with Syrian President Bashar al Assad and Foreign Minister Farouk al-Shara.

Mr. Vieira de Mello stressed the world body's humanitarian role - "If there has been no humanitarian crisis in Iraq, one keeps forgetting it is thanks to the United Nations' work there" - and its part in reconstruction with the hosting of a conference in October where donors will support the UN in assisting the reconstruction efforts in Iraq.
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[I AM SPARTACUS]

1. Team sElection to be led by Katherine Harris (remember her???)

[JoFerret]

2. Can we ask the UN

to organize ours in 2004?

[hang a left]

3. we have some

state of the art voting machines we'd like to sell ya

[samsingh]

4. teach them to have fake elections

its just replacing one dictator with another.

who will send us a team to have fair and open elections in the US?